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Hello, readers. My name is Billy and I make comics about song lyrics that I find to be odd, confusing, or otherwise re-interpretable.

The idea for Lyrics comics came to me about two years ago. I had been up all night drinking, and I was maintaining my buzz throughout the day. Around noon, as I was listening to Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral album, I was taken by the lyric, "help me, I broke apart my insides." "What the hell could that possibly mean?" I asked myself, and I began to draw what I figured to be a literal interpretation of this peculiar lyric. After giving birth to this beautiful brainchild, I continued drawing pages upon pages throughout the day while fueling my creativity with Tennessee whiskey.

These pages no longer exist, so I have come to Comic Fury to resurrect these works of comedy and pop-musical inquiry through the revolutionary-yet-dated graphic design program MS Paint. Some of the comics on this website are recreated from memory, while others are brand new.

The creative process behind Lyrics comics is 90% finding the right lyrics for the subject matter and 10% spinning it into something new. As a general rule, no text is used outside of the lyrics in any comic. I might make an exception for a sign or something, but there will never be any additional dialog. It's a pretty easy comic to put together; the text is always taken from another popular source and the art is borderline perfunctory. It takes me about 5-10 minutes on average to produce a comic.